Fletcher, one of three of the last known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, is celebrating her 109th birthday Wednesday.

It’s one of the show’s grandest and most moving gestures.

It was a fair question; after all, it's the centerpiece of my book's premise.

Solange made it clear with her widely acclaimed album “A Seat at the Table” that she’s dedicated to protecting what Black people own, and she’s just announced her inaugural free library that does...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she'll halt any Chicago police cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, but refuses to put it in writing.

Lance Reddick, star of 'The Wire,' 'John Wick' and more, has died at 60.

Portrait of Betty and Willis Coles by William Bullard from about 1902. Courtesy of Frank Morrill, Clark University and the Worcester Art Museum by Janette Greenwood, Clark University Unstable....

Before there was Olympic thug Ryan Lochte, who lied about being robbed in Rio de Janeiro, white people were notoriously known for either committing crimes and pinning them on fictitious black folks...

Libraries across the country are fighting food insecurity by offering communities free seeds and gardening education

Attorney Greg Francis, a champion for the rights of Black Americans, led and won the largest civil rights settlement in the history of civil justice in the U.S., demanding justice for 33,000 Black...

One in 10 US police departments can now access videos from millions of privately owned home security cameras without a warrant

The years following Emancipation, in which blacks were finally allowed to participate in democracy, was a time of unparalleled hope that later generations depicted as a failure

“What not having any African Americans in the room really showed was that this wasn’t really about understanding.”

The activist and poet Nikki Giovanni talks about fighting racial segregation, dealing with mobsters – and why her sense of outrage is undiminished

From a report on sundown towns to interviews with Angela Davis and Emmett Till’s mother, here are highlights from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.

Carolina Panthers safety Eric Reid told the Charlotte Observer that he will continue to kneel before the playing of the national anthem as he done over the past few seasons.

In the wake of the state-sanctioned lynchings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and countless others, the United States has been forced to grapple with not only the devastation of police terrorism, …

The “plate” is the real problem

Today is Dr. Kizzmekia “Kizzy” Corbett Day in Hillsborough, NC, the town where she grew up. She has drawn national attention for her work on the COVID vaccine.

Innovations by Black farmers remain at the core of sustainable agriculture today.

Some refuse to choreograph Megan Thee Stallion song, highlighting how white users get credit for Black creativity

Twenty years after the death of one of the first global Latin superstars, three friends who worked closely with the "Queen of Salsa" share personal memories and discuss her legacy.

She was the Communist Party candidate in 1968 and later led the campaign to free Angela Davis. But she eventually split with the party.

The Harvard Law professor represented Anita Hill, rapper Tupac Shakur and survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre.

America’s mental health was already deteriorating from the pandemic, but amid protests and racial unrest, black and Asian Americans have suffered even sharper rises in problems, while white Americans...

GARFIELD PARK — It started when Jett Hawkins' West Side school ordered him to take out his braids. His mother fought back to defend traditionally Black

Dawn Staley has canceled South Carolina's series with BYU after a BYU fan directed racial slurs at a Black Duke volleyball player.

Georgetown University and the Jesuits have made a $27 million pledge to the descendants of enslaved people sold to fund the school.

Miami Heat player Udonis Haslem said what many think in criticizing Ron DeSantis. Considering DeSantis is vindictive, Haslem's words were brave.

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston gave Langston Hughes a lift to Tuskegee in her Nash coupe, nicknamed “Sassy Susie.” It was one of most fortuitous hangouts in literary history.

The composer, whose music fused many styles with a singular voice, constantly broke new ground. He was the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for music.

The Baltimore library system is leading a movement.

During an 18-hour span, a white mob attacked residents, homes and businesses in the predominantly Black Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hundreds of people were killed and thousands left...

Federal officials told 16 states that they've been underfunding their Historically Black Colleges and Universities by some $12 billion. Tennessee State University had the biggest loss.

One day in late January 1962, a group of artists — known as the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios — staged a fashion show in Harlem that would change American culture forever. The event,...

We've all heard about Rosa Parks and her crucial role in the Montgomery bus boycott. But Parks was just one of the many women who organized for years to make that boycott a reality. In this episode,...

Starr Andrews received a fourth-place pewter medal at the U.S. figure skating championships, becoming the first Black woman to medal at the event since Debi Thomas in 1988.

Florence Nwando Onwusi Didigu focused her studies on female survivors of the Nigerian Civil War, which she lived through in the late 1960s

Who is Bill Clinton to weigh in on whether or not civil rights organizer Kwame Ture went "too far"?

A version of Chapman’s Fast Car – a song she solely wrote – has reached number one on US country chart, making history.

Latino and Black students in advanced math courses grew when Texas districts stopped relying on recommendations and automatically enrolled qualifying students.

Is the Fed’s massive coronavirus stimulus package helping the ultra-rich at the expense of ordinary American workers? That’s what Chamath Palihapitiya, chief...

We need a moral movement to create change.

Three months after George Floyd’s killing, fewer white people say that racism is a big problem.

The successes of the Freedman’s Bureau, initiated by Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and first administered under Oliver Howard’s War Department, are all the more remarkable considering the intense popular...

The deeply introspective music in Claudine brings layers of emotional authenticity and nuance to a portrait of Black love and family.

As a science fiction writer, Butler forged a new path and envisioned bold possibilities. On the eve of a major revival of her work, this is the story of how she came to see a future that is now our...

The decennial count ‘impacts everything’ from federal funding to political representation for the tribes

An Alabama publisher has released the memoir of the late civil rights leader C.T. Vivian of Atlanta, months after his death.

She stepped down after months of contending with interlocking crises over the Israel-Hamas war, campus antisemitism, and allegations of plagiarism in her scholarly works.